Countdown to Winter Break

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0  - Sounds easy right?!?  Well try counting back from 20 - it can be quite funny and my kids every year need a little bit of extra help with this. 

So why not countdown the day to winter break!  We have 18 days (not school days...we only have 15  14 more of those.)

In order to make this even more fun we decided to make a chain of paper links to send home with the kids today.

This is an image of MY chain that we will use every morning.  We will count up to see how many and then countdown to see how many are left.

Here are a few pictures of my kiddos hard at work:

Do you do anything fun to countdown the remaining days until break?

Christina

Bundle Bonanza and Currently December

With Cyber Monday happening over at TpT tomorrow I wanted to share A TON of updates to my products and bundles!

I have updated my Say it, Clap it, Sort it Syllable Bundle which now has 14 themes: School Supplies, Columbus, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Holidays Around the World, Gingerbread, Winter, April, Cinco de Mayo, Animals, Earth Day, Fairy Tales, Insects/Bugs, Patriotic, and Summer.

 Here's a picture of the Halloween one in action :)

I still have a few themes to add to this product and they will be added as the year goes on. Purchasing the bundle saves you 50% and with the TpT sale tomorrow you can get an additional 28% off!

As a lot of you have noticed I've updated the format to my Write the Rooms - Literacy Station.  It now looks very similar to my Math Write the Rooms, and saves on ink and paper!

My Writing Words have all been updated through January - only a few left and this product will be DONE! :)

And last but not least there are only a few days left to grab the bundle from Educents!

So go check this out and don't forget that the TpT Cyber Monday starts tomorrow and you can get 28% off of ALL my products - even these $$$ Saving Bundles!

Happy Shopping,
Christina Mauro

Oh and I can't forget I'm linking up with Farley over at Oh' Boy 4th Grade for Currently December! This is my first time linking up!!!

CVC Words Educents Deal

How cool is this CVC product from Sommer Pride!

I used this with some of my students during literacy stations.  For this activity they were to roll the die and right the word depending upon what they rolled.

 For this next part there are sound boxes for the students to isolate the sounds they hear and write them into the boxes.

Then for this last part the students focused on just one of the words.  They had to trace the word, write the word and then cut and paste.

They LOVED this activities!  I can't wait to use more!  If you want a real deal then head over to Educents where you can get this product and 19 more for a real deal! Only $30 for 20 products!

Right now you can get 20% off and earn 10% back but don't forget to use the code EDUCENTS20

Enjoy,
Christina Mauro

Year Round Resources from Top Teachers

Have you been searching for things that you can use all year round?!?
Well look no further because this is the bundle for you!   

I am very excited to be a part of the bundle with Educents!  I know you will love my Mark my Word: Word Work. This product has 30 print and go worksheets that you can use to introduce or reinforce sight words in a fun and interactive way.

Here's a few pictures of this activity in action!  The kids just LOVE using the stampers!

There are many other products in our bundle to get your kids learning!  

Centers, printables, vocabulary, book studies, interactive notebooking and so much more!

Click the picture below to go check out another product that's included in the bundle.

But that's not all!   Since you are on my blog I would like to give you a chance to win something extra for free!  Please follow me or pin something or shout it out on FB and enter to win
Mark my Word 2: Word Work  Good luck!

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The deal won't last long so head over now!

All things turkey

Today was our Thanksgiving Luncheon at school and our Kindergarten rotations.  Talk about a busy day!

Our class made Pilgrim and Indians hats and they got to choose which ones they wanted to wear today for our luncheon.

Those were a few...not the best pictures because I didn't want to get their faces in the pics :)

Our school invites all the parents to come in for a turkey lunch and it was amazing to see how many families came in!  From the looks of it the kids had a blast!

Right after that we did our kindergarten rotations.  There are four classes this year and each class gets to go to another room to do an activity with another teacher.  In my room we made bean mosiacs - SO cute!

I had premade the cardboard pieces and all they had to do was glue and place the beans on the pattern provided.  They loved using all the glue!

Across the hall the students played "the stick game" They kids get three sticks and they throw them in the air and then use the paper to see how many points they get.

In another class they made a hand print Mayflower:

And in the last class they made a bracelet retelling the story of the first Thanksgiving with beads:

They had to string the beads as the teacher told the story.

Wow - what a day!  As I was walking around taking pictures I also wanted to share a few other things that are festive for this time of year.

We did a family project with "family ties" and used them for turkey feathers for this adorable hallway decoration:

Our school is collecting cans for a food drive for a local organization and we are keeping count of our cans outside our door:

Lastly - I got a chance to go across the street to my daughter's first thanksgiving at her preschool! :)  She was dressed as the most adorable little Indian (native american).

 

While I was at her school I snapped a few photos of some projects that were super cute:

I know this is long but one more thing...I have some exciting news but I can't share just yet! :) So make sure you check back Saturday morning! :)

Happy Friday,

Christina